Last season, Aaron Rodgers suffered a season-ending injury during just his first drive as a member of the New York Jets. And it sounds like he has some pretty major regrets about that play.
In Ian O’Conner’s upcoming unauthorized biography of Aaron Rodgers titled Out Of The Darkness: The Mystery of Aaron Rodgers, the quarterback admitted that he had a major regret about that play as he wishes he simply would have thrown the ball to wide receiver Garrett Wilson and avoided the hit that ended his season.
“I felt like pre-snap that the safety was going to come down, so I think I played it all a little bit too quick,” Rodgers told O’Connor according to the New York Post. “And I was thinking about getting it backside to the under [receiver]. So, I probably should have just thrown it right to Garrett.”
Rodgers did not seem to expect Wilson to be as open as he was.
“Garrett really flattened off his route, and I thought if he goes vertical at all … because I thought [Micah Hyde] was going to crash down on that,” Rodgers said. “So, I kinda looked left, and I was going to come back and throw the under to the right. I almost threw it to [Allen Lazard].”
Needless to say, it turned out to be a very costly split-second decision.
